Advertising device



`(Hommel.)

J. .BUTZON.

` ADVERTISING DBVIGB. N0. 552,605. Patented Jain. 7 `1896;

@wwe ATToRN Ev.'

ANDREW EGIMMPHUTUUYNQWASMINGTON Il C UNiTED STATE-s PATENT GEEICE'.;

JosEPi-i BU'rZoN, or rI-nLADELrI-HA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,605, dated January 7,1896.

Application filed September 24;, 1895. Serial No. 563,494. (No model.)

for the purpose of displaying goods; and it consists in the employment of two pieces` of glass or similar material having fixedly interposed therebetween suitable material which serves to represent the features of a human being, a hat, neck, collar, tie and shirt-besoin vof the same, other pieces being employed tov designate the hands, cuffs, feet, &c., and, 4if desired, fa' walking-cane, the cloth to be displayed being applied at the back of one of the glass plates, it being understood that the entire portion of one of said plates is painted opaque except the inner or substantially central portion of the plate, which is left uncolored to conform to vthe outline of a human i figure, all aswillbe hereinafter set forth.

Figure l represents a plan view of an advertising 'device embodying my invention.

Fig. `2 represents a vertical sectional view on line 00,"Figi` l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-` sponding parts on the several figures. p Y

Referring tolthe drawings, A and B designate two plates'of glass or similar material,the same beinggheld s in juxtaposition by means of the binding or holding device or border B.

C designates a suitable material interposed, in the upper portion, between said plates upon which is delineated the features of a human being, a hat, collar, tie and shirtbosomof same.

D `designates other pieces of material attached at suitable points of the contactingplates upon which isdelineated cuffs, hands or gloves of said .igure, the feet or shoes E, and walking-stick F,"being also Vsimilarly represented in their appropriate places. The

substantially central portion Gofvthe glass plates'A and B is left transparent, Whilelthe remaining portion H of the same up to the border B is rendered opaque by the application of any suitable medium, the Jtransparent portion of the glass representing the outline of a human figure, it being understood. that said opaque material may be applied to the glass at any suitable or desirable place or side.

J- designates the cloth or other material which it is desired to display and which is applied to the surface of said device, as indicated in Fig. 2.

The operationis asvfollows: The device is builtup byV placingthe vpieces of paper or `other materialC, D, Eand F in theirlproper positions, and applying the opaque'material to-the glass at theproper place-to delineate the desired figure. A,The two glass plates are placed' in juxtaposition and then held by means of the binding-strip'orretaining device BV, and when it-is desired to display the articles to be vended the same are placed next the side of the device, as at J and the eifect can thus readily be discerned from the other side. 4

Special attention is called tothe fact that the above device cannot, be bent or creased, and that by constructing thev same in the manner described the glass plates are 'uncut or continuous throughout` and theV pieces of paper or other material representing the head, hands, feet, &c., can be .readilylchangem as may bedesired, and itwillfurtlier be found that the texture and appearanceof the goods vwill be' displayed tomuch better advantage in adevice of thisfcharacter, ratherthan in devices of a similar nature, a'specialfeature to which attention is called being its durability, since it is impossible to crease the same, and in addition to its always Vretaining its shape it is less liable to break.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i The herein described advertising device, consisting of the continuous unbroken plates of glass or similar material A and B,`means for holding the same in juxtaposition, and suitable removable material C, D, and E, in-

IOO

terposed between said plates, and adapted to figure, for the purpose of displaying` goods, represent the features, hands and feet of a cloth, or other material, substantially as dehunian being, the outer portion of one of said scribed.

plates being rendered opaque to the desired JOSEPH BUTZON. 5 extent, and the substantially central or inner Vitnesses:

portion of one of said plates being left trans- JOHN A. VIEDERSHEIM,

parent to Conform to the outline of a human lVM. C. VIEDERSHEIM. 

